Re: How do you manage encrypted mail?
On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 06:48:52PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> Rob Owens:
> >
> > I just verified that I can search the contents of emails in Mutt and
> > only enter my GPG passphrase once. There were multiple encrypted emails
> > in my inbox when I tested this.
>
> The problem is that mutt's search doesn't use an index. Searching
> message bodies is painfully slow this way. I usually do server-side
> search via IMAP, but that doesn't work for encrypted mails at all.
>
I have all my messages on my ISP's IMAP server. I don't have anything
but headers cached locally. I was able to search with Mutt. But it was
kind of slow. I assume that behind the scenes it downloads each message
to a temporary file (or RAM) and searches it that way.
-Rob
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